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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Great Incurable Matter Mind Occupy Small
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality

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